From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, johnrose@austin.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable CONFIG_RTAS_PROC by default
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 06:43:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115376216.6421.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17019.3651.107704.631078@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 16:27 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven writes:
>
> > shouldn't this move over to sysfs at some point, to some firmware
> > directory ?
>
> Well, eventually maybe, but there are userspace programs using it, so
> we can't remove the /proc interface for a while yet.
sure that's a given, the question is I guess first to start providing a
sysfs equivalent so that apps CAN start using the new thing, before even
thinking about the obsoletion of the old interface. That was more what I
was fishing for ...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-06 10:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-06 1:25 Paul Mackerras
2005-05-06 1:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-06 6:27 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-05-06 10:43 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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